Wikimedia CommonsWhat does the image of the Grim Reaper, aka Death, have to do with comedy and resistance? But it was Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump being advised by Stephen Bannon played by the Grim Reaper that really brought the theology. The Grim Reaper is Death, and this brought the idea of Thanatos, the Greek God of death, into a comedy sketch. My faculty colleague at Chicago Theological Seminary Dr. Phil Anderson, used to teach a class called "Humor as Healing and Grace." Comedy is essential to exposing and healing the true soul poison of the constant barrage of hypocrisy and dangerous extremism of this current administration and sustaining resistance.

Source: Huffington Post February 05, 2017 18:20 UTC